https://garrickvanburen.com/archive/first-crack-125-open-font-licensing-with-david-crossland/feed/0Cold Start #4 – How to Start Your Startup with Dan Grigsbyhttps://garrickvanburen.com/archive/cold-start-4-how-to-start-your-startup-with-dan-grigsby/
https://garrickvanburen.com/archive/cold-start-4-how-to-start-your-startup-with-dan-grigsby/#commentsFri, 18 Dec 2009 06:25:37 +0000http://www.firstcrackpodcast.com/?p=345Dan Grigsby from MobileOrchard, discusses how he’s building a comfortable life for himself with a combination of projects, what’s lacking in the Minnesota tech startup community, and why that isn’t a problem.

https://garrickvanburen.com/archive/cold-start-3-changing-your-startup-with-ben-moore/feed/0First Crack #124. Open Web Fonts with Ben Weinerhttps://garrickvanburen.com/archive/first-crack-124-open-web-fonts-with-ben-weiner/
https://garrickvanburen.com/archive/first-crack-124-open-web-fonts-with-ben-weiner/#commentsFri, 27 Nov 2009 22:32:50 +0000http://www.firstcrackpodcast.com/?p=326Ben Weiner‘s been doing great work on giving greater visibility for open fonts – and has written a book proposal for web fonts. I called him up to discuss this work and my notion that web fonts are a brant new species of fonts.

CitizenWausau is one of the coolest, homegrown citizen journalism projects I’ve seen since I’ve been looking for them. I called up Dino Corvino and Andy Laub, the editor and technologist respectively, to discuss the project, how it’s grown, and it’s relationship with more established media in a smaller city market.

I’ve been a fan of Tim Quirk’s music for 20 years – easy. The playful melancholy in throughout his songwriting continually resonates with me. When he announced the new Wonderlick album was in the works and available for ‘name-your-price’ pre-order – I jumped on the opportunity.

When I started hearing about how successful the campaign was – I asked Tim if he’d talk about the album and the campaign for the podcast.

As he mentions in our conversation, the common theme through the 16 tracks is the exploration of an experience he first wrote about in 2002:

]]>https://garrickvanburen.com/archive/first-crack-120-wonderlicks-tim-quirk-on-truth-through-music/feed/0First Crack 119. Justin Grammens on Mobile VOIPhttps://garrickvanburen.com/archive/first-crack-119-justin-grammens-on-mobile-voip/
https://garrickvanburen.com/archive/first-crack-119-justin-grammens-on-mobile-voip/#commentsMon, 30 Mar 2009 04:37:20 +0000http://www.firstcrackpodcast.com/?p=263I have a hypothesis that mobile VOIP over WiFi will replace mobile carriers for the majority of phone conversations within 5 years. For a reality check, I called up Justin Grammens of Localtone Interactive and Mobile Twin Cities.

From the picture he paints, I think we’ll see this well within 5 years. Maybe 2.

A couple years back Scott Davis and Paul Werni founded 45th Parallel Spirits, a distillery in New Richmond, WI – just a quick 45 minute drive from northeast Minneapolis. While there are number of craft brewers in the region, 45th Parallel is the only still I know of. Paul, Scott, and I talk about the distilling process and the benefits of sourcing locally.

]]>https://garrickvanburen.com/archive/first-crack-116-garrick-talks-about-the-legends-of-paul-bunyan/feed/0First Crack 115. Chad Gillard on Aebleskivershttps://garrickvanburen.com/archive/first-crack-115-chad-gillard-on-aebleskivers/
https://garrickvanburen.com/archive/first-crack-115-chad-gillard-on-aebleskivers/#commentsSun, 25 Jan 2009 23:25:08 +0000http://www.firstcrackpodcast.com/?p=236Chad Gillard lives a few houses down from me – and little did I know that his side project is making and selling tasty, tasty Danish apple treats under the Aunt Else’s Organic Aebleskiver brand (Aunt Elsies on Twitter)

It started with a goal so many Minnesotans have: sell food at the Minnesota State Fair.

While he’s still on his way to reaching that goal, we cover the conflicting aebleskiver recipes and the local food producers he’s met while selling at farmers markets and town festivals.

]]>https://garrickvanburen.com/archive/first-crack-114-kurt-schmidt-on-old-school-bmx-freestyle/feed/1Kris Smith and Garrick Van Buren on Enterprise RSShttps://garrickvanburen.com/archive/kris-smith-and-garrick-van-buren-on-enterprise-rss/
https://garrickvanburen.com/archive/kris-smith-and-garrick-van-buren-on-enterprise-rss/#commentsThu, 15 Jan 2009 23:06:53 +0000http://www.firstcrackpodcast.com/?p=213Long time podcast friend Kris Smith and I dig into RSS in the Enterprise over at BlogTalkRadio.

]]>https://garrickvanburen.com/archive/first-crack-113-tim-coyne-on-how-hollywood-works/feed/1First Crack 112. Shef Otis, The Dadiatorhttps://garrickvanburen.com/archive/first-crack-112-shef-otis-the-dadiator/
https://garrickvanburen.com/archive/first-crack-112-shef-otis-the-dadiator/#commentsMon, 15 Dec 2008 03:27:44 +0000http://www.firstcrackpodcast.com/?p=200Shef Otis talks about moving from actor in LA to dad of 7 kids under 8 (SevenSidekicks.com) in suburban Minneapolis, and his Dadiator Workout program to keep dads as fit as their kids.

From the unpublished First Crack archives, I bring you a conversation I recorded in July 2007 with Minneapolis novelist, Patricia Crumbie on her then – yet to be published – young adult novel, Where People Like Us Live.

As you can tell from the links above, her book is now available.

In our conversation, we cover the book itself – a pretty tough topic that makes me uncomfortable, and how a course at the Loft Literary Center helped her change and polish the book to help it find a publisher.

]]>https://garrickvanburen.com/archive/first-crack-110-bruno-bornsztein-on-open-sourcing-communityengine/feed/0First Crack 107. DJ Edna – Open Source Website for Musicianshttps://garrickvanburen.com/archive/first-crack-107-dj-edna-open-source-website-for-musicians/
https://garrickvanburen.com/archive/first-crack-107-dj-edna-open-source-website-for-musicians/#commentsSun, 02 Mar 2008 22:09:12 +0000http://www.firstcrackpodcast.com/archive/first-crack-107-dj-edna-open-source-website-for-musicians/Thomas Bohmbach and I discuss DJ Edna, his open source project empowering musicians, and other artists, to take control of the sales and distribution of their creative work online.